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This article is about the the major god in Age of Mythology. For the Titan unit, see Kronos (unit). |
| “ | Busy rebuilding, are they? How foolish to pretend they are safe, to think that closing some gates would mean the end of this... to forget that I'm still here. Well, it's their nature to be forgetful... Even their gods are absentminded - Zeus has forgotten about everyone he has locked away in Tartarus. It is time for all of us to remind him... |
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| —from the opening cutscene of the A Lost People scenario | ||
Kronos is an Atlantean major god in Age of Mythology: The Titans who focuses on Siege and myth units. He is based on Cronus, the king of the Titans.
Attributes[]
God power[]
Deconstruction: Enables the player to deconstruct an enemy building. The full resource cost of the building is returned to the player's enemy. Cannot be used against Town Centers, Village Centers, Wonders, or Titan Gates, and most buildings created by god powers.
Technology[]
- Temporal Chaos: Three buildings can be concurrently Time Shifted. -50% Time Shift cost for tower-line, Palaces, and Mirror Towers (only available since Retold)
- Focus: Oracle and Oracle Hero take -1.0 second to reach maximum Line of Sight; Oracle has +10% movement speed and Oracle Hero has +20% movement speed, +15% hit points and +10% attack (only available before Retold).
Bonuses[]
- Can time-shift buildings to new locations (towers and Palaces cost 50% of their price to shift, others are free).
- Buildings are constructed 25% faster per nearby Manor.
- Receive 2 free myth units instead of 1 when advancing to the next age.
- Lost siege and myth units return 20% of their resource cost.
Minor gods[]
- Classical Age
- Prometheus - Heroes
- Leto - Automatons
- Heroic Age
- Mythic Age
Time Shift[]
Through the Building Time Shift ability, players can move their own buildings to any other location in their Line of Sight. Upon activating the Time Shift ability on a building and targeting a location, it is slowly but automatically deconstructed, with a charge bar appearing below the building which goes from full to zero. The building is simultaneously reconstructed at the targeted location as a foundation, with its hit points increasing from zero. This foundation can be attacked and damaged by enemies. Only one building can be time shifted at a time.
In Retold, towers, Palaces, and Helios' Mirror Towers cost 50% of their base cost to Time Shift. Time Shifting other buildings is free. Town Centers, Village Centers, walls, Gates, and Wonders cannot be Time Shifted.
Before Retold, Towers, Palaces, and Helios' Mirror Towers all cost 200 wood, 100 gold to Time Shift, the same cost as building a new tower. All other buildings cost 5 wood, though Town Centers, walls, Gates, and Wonders could not be Time Shifted.
Buildings currently under the assault of Pestilence and Uproot can also be time shifted. While the time shift is underway, the god power's effects continue on the building. If time shifted to a spot which is still near the enemy god power's targeted location, the building regains the affliction upon completion, but if time shifted away from the location, it escapes the enemy god power's effect.
The build queue of a building (i.e. all units and technologies queued) is cancelled when time shift begins. Buildings eject all garrisoned units when being time shifted, and cannot be garrisoned again until it is complete. There is an exception to this behavior, with Temples not ejecting garrisoned Relics or garrisoned units, and also being able to be garrisoned with more Relics at the original Temple, and the player benefiting from the Relics while the Temple is being shifted. As soon as the Temple is finished being time shifted, the Relics and garrisoned units are ejected at the original Temple location.
Changelog[]
The Titans[]
- His myth technology is Focus.
- Bonuses are:
- Siege weapons and myth units are 10% cheaper.
- Kronos can time-shift buildings to any location within own Line of Sight (cannot time-shift Farms).
Tale of the Dragon[]
- With patch 2.7, siege weapons and myth units also move 10% faster.
Retold[]
- His myth technology is Temporal Chaos.
- Bonuses changed to:
- Kronos can time-shift buildings to new locations (towers and Palaces cost 50% of their price to shift, others are free, cannot time-shift Farms).
- Buildings are constructed 25% faster per nearby Manor.
- Receive 2 free myth units instead of 1 when advancing to the next age.
- Lost siege and myth units return 20% of their resource cost.
Immortal Pillars[]
- With update 18.27100, Kronos can now also time-shift Farms.
Mythology[]
| “ | The youngest of the Titans, Kronos became king of the gods after he castrated his father, Oranos, with the help of his mother, Gaia, who wished to free her children whom Oranos had imprisoned. Kronos ruled over a time of prosperity known as the Golden Age. Kronos and his sister-wife Rheia produced six children, including Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. Fearing a revolt similar to his own, Kronos attempted to swallow all of his children at their birth, but Zeus avoided that fate and ultimately freed his siblings and banished the Titans to Tartarus. Kronos will never cease trying to escape Tartarus to rule the cosmos once again. |
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| —In-game help section | ||
| “ | The youngest of the Titans, his name meant time. Kronos became king of the gods after he castrated his father, Oranos, with the help of his mother, Gaia, who wished to free her children whom Oranos had imprisoned. Kronos ruled over a time of prosperity known as the Golden Age. Kronos and his wife/sister Rheia produced six children, including Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. Fearing a revolt similar to his own, Kronos attempted to swallow all of his children at their birth, but Zeus avoided that fate and ultimately freed his siblings and banished the Titans to Tartarus. |
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| —In-game help section | ||
Technology tree[]
 Kronos |
God power | |
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 Deconstruction | ||
 Temple |
 Temporal Chaos |
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Trivia[]
- Kronos' user interface in the Extended Edition and Retold features sickles. Kronos was given a great stone sickle by Gaia to castrate his father, Oranos, and is an instrument often associated with him.
- In the regions of ancient Greece where it was observed, his festival of Kronia was a time of merrymaking and liberation from toil (in imitation of the Golden Age), so Kronos's depiction in the campaigns as an evil god does not accord with how he was actually regarded by the Greeks.
- In Rome, Kronos was syncretized with the Roman god Saturn, and according to certain traditions he fled from Greece to Italy after being usurped by Zeus, where he brought agriculture and civilization, becoming the first king of Latium.
- While it is stated in the pre-Retold mythology section that "his name meant time", Kronos (Κρόνος) and Chronos (Χρόνος, "time") are distinct words in Greek. It is likely that already in Antiquity the two gods were equated on account of the similarity of their names, and the fact that Kronos was an agrarian deity, and thereby associated with the progression of the seasons and the agricultural cycle.
- The depiction of Kronos in The Titans as a glowing rock-monster does not match either Classical or Renaissance sources, in which he is depicted as a human figure in a similar manner to other gods.
- A similar alien appearance was given to Gaia in Retold, though no other Titans were given a similar redesign.
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